REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Nine - Singing as if a New Song - Continue

 How can the 144,000 sing  "before the elders, since the 24 elders are the 144,000 in their glorious  heavenly positiion? Early in the Lord's day those "dead in union with Christ" were resurrected  as spirit creatures. Thus, faithful anointed Christians who have conquered  are now in heaven, symbolically fulfilling functions  comparable to those of the 24 divisions of priestly elders.  They are included in the vision of Jehovah's heavenly organization. (1 Thessalonians 4:15, 16; 1 Chronicles 24:1-18; Revelation 4:4; 6:11) The remnant of the 244,000 still on earth are therefore singing the new song before, or in the sight of  their resurrected brothers in heaven.

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